The body is a doorway : a memoir : a journey beyond healing, hope, and the human
"In this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores -- with searing insight and honesty -- the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves. At age sixteen Sophie Strand -- bright, agile, fearless -- is suddenly beset by unexplained, debilitating illness while on a family trip abroad. Her o...